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	World Music Central - Samba Brasileiro — A History
		Samba became a means of instilling national pride in the masses and was officially recognized worldwide, as a musical genre and dance form.
		The samba de enredo comprised the theme songs of Rio de Janiero's Carnival - batucadas (large percussion sections), as well as the singers and dancers comprising the escolas de samba, marched in street parades to samba de enredo, and frequently, samba cançao.
		Samba reggae is said to have evolved from the formation of Bahia’s Afro Blocs, which prioritized fl consciousness in their lyrics, as a result of the 1970s movement in the US, thus integrating popular forms of fl music.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20040720105726323 (1185 words)

	Encyclopedia: Samba (music) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Samba is the most famous of the various forms of music arising from the amalgam of African and Portuguese music in Brazil.
		Samba developed as a distinctive kind of music at the beginning of the 20th century in Rio de Janeiro (then the capital of Brazil) under the strong influence of immigrant fl people from Bahia.
		Nowadays, samba is still one of the most popular musical genres in Brazil, even though there is a lack of new artists in the area.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samba-(music) (519 words)

	Samba -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Samba is the most famous of the various forms of music arising from (A native or inhabitant of Africa) African roots in (The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter) Brazil.
		The name samba most probably comes from the (A republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990) Angolan semba (mesemba) - a religious rhythm.
		Who created the music is uncertain, but it was probably the work of the group around Tia Ciata, among them (Click link for more info and facts about Pixinguinha) Pixinguinha and João da Bahiana.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samba.htm (557 words)

	The UNC Press, The Mystery of Samba by Hermano Vianna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood.
		To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage.
		Typically, samba is represented as having changed spontaneously, mysteriously, from a "repressed" music of the marginal and impoverished to a national symbol cherished by all Brazilians.
	uncpress.unc.edu /books/t-294.html (234 words)

	The culture of samba music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Samba music is very diverse and it's difficult to define.
		Samba is on the whole a musical composition made with a syncopated and binary rhythm.
		Samba de roda is a mix of samba and capoeira.
	www.submityournewarticle.com /Article/The-culture-of-samba-music/81780 (617 words)

	maSamba: A brief history of Samba.
		Samba came to the attention of white Brasilians with the advent of radio and record players and the first recorded sambas appeared from 1917 onwards.
		Samba school members compose songs and submit designs for costumes‚ floats‚ etc. The samba enredo (winning song) is selected and becomes the key song and determines the overall theme for that year's entry.
		Samba is an ideal tool in education and community arts settings and‚ as such has been used in a broad variety of social settings.
	www.masamba.com /samba (1189 words)

	Samba (music) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Samba is the most famous among the various forms of music that resulted from the amalgam of African and Portuguese music that took place in Brazil.
		Samba developed as a distinctive kind of music at the beginning of the 20th century in Rio de Janeiro (then the capital of Brazil) with great influence of immigrant fl people from Bahia.
		The music authorship is shadowy, but it was probably a collective creation of the group around Tia Ciata, among them Pixinguinha and João da Bahiana.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/samba__music_ (499 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Samba Mapangala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Malako LP was one of the pioneering releases of the newly emerging world music scene in Europe in the mid-1980s and an instant favorite.
		Samba's voice, even today, is unique among African vocalists for its pleasing quality and versatility.
		Virunga as a concept continues, however, with Samba preparing a new release in Paris in April, 1995 under the auspices of Senegalese producer Ibrahim Sylla.
	africanmusic.org /artists/mapngala.html (450 words)

	The mystical Origin of Samba Music with African influence and roots ! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Origin of samba music history in Brazil, which todaycan be seen in awe at the vibrant Brazilian carnivals, can be found in Angola,Africa, from where it was brought to Brazil with the slave trading in the interval 1600-1888.
		The origin of Samba music has a lot of similarities with Mambo and Salsa, which are undeniably linked to slavery and the religious traditions of West Africa.
		As the west Africans were forced into slavery in the strange foreign land of Brazil, the origin of samba music was preserved in their religious traditions by making them part of their daily life.
	www.sambacity.info /origin-of-samba.htm (480 words)

	Samba article - Samba Samba Brazilian music Samba dance Samba Samba software disambiguation - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Samba may have one of the following meanings.
		Samba is an afro-Brazilian folk dance based on Samba music.
		Samba software is a free, open implementation of Microsoft's networking protocols.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Samba (109 words)

	Samba Music :: calabashmusic.com
		Capoeira and Samba, two distinctly Brazilian traditions, are showcased individually through...
		A Barca was created in 1998 when a group of friends began to collaborate via their interest in...
		Afro-brazilian Religious Music is a selection that makes a tribute to...
	music.calabashmusic.com /world/Samba (357 words)

	Like a breeze in the trees, Brazilian music sways the soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For myself, a student of the guitar, the Portuguese language and Brazilian music, it was a revelation to hear these bossa nova tunes in their natural habitat, if you will.
		Samba music tends to be harmonically simpler than bossa, more the music of the common man, and, with its more pronounced, danceable rhythms, some people find it more emotional and more fun.
		Musically and lyrically audacious, high-energy Brazilian pop from the guy who is now Brazil's official minister of culture.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04333/417139.stm (1295 words)

	Samba Dance & Music
		It began in the favelas, or Afro-Brazilian fl Ghettos in the Bahian state and migrated to Rio with the recording of "Pelo Telephone" by Dongo and Mauro Almeida in 1917.
		Samba Music is divided into many sub-categories such as Bossa Nova, Partido Alto, Pagode, Samba de Breque, Samba-canssao and Samba-enredo.
		Samba can also refer to the rhythmic dance that is typically performed to Samba music, though as with the music, there are many different forms of the dance.
	www.amerispan.net /weblog/archives/2006/10/samba_dance_mus.php (300 words)

	Notes on Samba - Origins of Samba - 1929 to the Present
		The Samba was introduced to the Dance Masters Association of New York as early as 1929 and had a general introduction to movie audiences in 1933 when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers danced the Samba-Carioca in Flying Down to Rio.
		A Samba exhibition was given at the November 1938 meeting of the New York Society of Teachers of Dancing and general interest in the Samba was stimulated at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, where Samba music was played at the Brazilian Pavilion.
		There are the sambas de enredo, the theme songs of Rio's Carnival parades which feature the large percussion sections or batucadas marching with hundreds of singers and dancers in escolas de samba.
	www.geocities.com /sd_au/samba/sambanotes3.html (1128 words)

	Brazilian Music - Samba
		The Jongo, a variant of the Samba, until today is considered a religious dance.
		The Samba in Brazil, is still an underground culture.
		Photo: View of Mangueira community, where the Samba was born in the late 1800's.
	www.brazilianmusic.com /samba.html (501 words)

	Brazil - BRAZZIL - Marcos Sacramento Rediscovers Samba - Brazilian Music - February 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Among these five we find the samba "Ares do Rio," in which the poet Sacramento serenades his city as if she were a woman, her illuminated breasts the mountains of Sugar Loaf and Urca, fatefully located in that mythic spot of historic discovery.
		The eminent music critic Tárik de Souza noted with approval the creative spirit embodied in this disc and a few others of its ilk—creativity that persists despite the Brazilian music industry's current focus on marketing mediocre genres for mass consumption.
		A collection of classic sambas connected with the escola de samba Estácio de Sá and the Rio soccer club Flamengo, recorded on the occasion of Flamengo's centennial, which Estácio used as its theme in the 1995 Carnaval.
	www.brazzil.com /blafeb99.htm (5544 words)

	Brazilian Music: Roots 1
		Bumba-meu-boi, lullabies and nursery rhymes, poetical and lyrical forms, and almost all of the basic musical instruments we hear in Brazil today: flute, clarinet, cavaquinho, guitar, piano, violin, cello, accordion and the tambourine.
		An extensive array of percussion instruments is of African origin: all kinds of drums, from the atabaques used in Afro-Brazilian religions to the surdo and tamborim of the samba school bateria (percussion section); the agogô, two metal bells played with a metal stick, and the cuíca.
		This unusual instrument is a small metal barrel covered with leather in one end, having attached inside to its center a short stick, which is rubbed with a piece of wet cloth to produce the most extraordinary sounds (sometimes you may think you hear laughter...).
	www.maria-brazil.org /mpb1.htm (786 words)

	Brazil - BRAZZIL - Familia Roitman: White, Young & Playing Traditional Samba - Brazilian Music - July 1999
		The first recorded samba, "Pelo Telefone" (Donga; 1917), was the result of a communal effort at Tia Ciata's house in the historic Praça Onze, now vanished from Rio's cityscape.
		During the Golden Age of samba, in the '30s, '40s, and '50s, the music market became more integrated, enabling singers of color—Orlando Silva, Sílvio Caldas, Aracy de Almeida, Moreira da Silva, Ataulfo Alves, Cyro Monteiro, and Elizeth Cardoso, to name a few of the most brilliant—to rise to the top of their profession.
		In 1994, we were invited by Teca Calazans to record a CD for a Brazilian music collection that she was coordinating at the French label Buda Musique.
	www.brazzil.com /p43jul99.htm (4442 words)

	Samba History
		Much of the music in the heavily populated coastal areas shows a remarkable combination of African, Native Indian, and Iberian influences.
		Both Samba the dance and music can take many forms, from the vivacious call response of samba de enredo, the music of Carnaval to samba-cancon or song samba, a more relaxed guitar and rhythm variant.
		The Ballroom Samba, while maintaining elements of what the Brazilians consider the true Samba, was formalised in 1956 by Pierre Lavelle.
	www.geocities.com /sd_au/samba/sdhsamba.htm (606 words)

	Grand multicultural music-making - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was the Womad arts festival in Singapore, an event that celebrated music, arts and dance drawn from a mishmash of cultures all over the world to bring the message of unity through arts.
		Womad, or World of Music, Arts and Dance, kicked off in England in 1982 from English musician Peter Gabriel's vision of "introducing an international audience to many talented artists." The festival is akin to the hippie-counterculture Woodstock event and France's Fete de la Musique.
		The nomadic music fest did just that, and proved that passion for music and the arts could bring a multicultural society swaying and headbangin' for a common cause.
	beta.inq7.net /lifestyle/index.php?index=1&story_id=53574 (1295 words)

	Brazil samba music Brazilian carnival
		The word Samba, and the musical genre Samba, has for a long time being studied to uncover its origin.
		In Brazil, Samba is a woman with the same function of an ekedi nagô in the banto's temples: A sacred dancer, iaô, the daughter of the saint.
		Unlike other societies that cherish the Blues, the Jazz, the Mambo, the Rumba, the Reggae and others, and sees these musical art forms as a national treasure and are proud of it, Brazilian society refuses to recognize the Samba as a culture, as Brazil's main culture and pays no respect to their masters.
	www.floridabrasil.com /english/samba.html (539 words)

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		Samba Music is in Brazil often Associated with the Carnival Music in Rio
		Samba no pe is done in a 2/4 rhythm where the dancer takes three steps to every bar.
		Samba no pe could be danced either alone or in a group.
	www.sambamusic.com (347 words)

	Japan Samba Page
		It's the biggest samba event of the year in Japan with hundreds of people participating in the parade.
		In 1995, the Enredo (theme music) "A Lenda da Sereia" was released by Thobias (singer of samba school Vai-Vai in São Paulo) CD album in Brasil.
		Their main activity is to participate in the samba carnival at Asakusa in August.
	tanny.cup.com /japansamba (703 words)

	The emergence of Latin American music -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		With infectious songs that blended the samba music of his own country with American jazz, the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim launched the musical style known as bossa nova in the late 1950s.
		Contains sheet music illustrations, a sheet music timeline, information about the collection, a selected bibliography on sheet music, a keyword browser, and subject and name indices.
		Listen to the music of the American south, and you'll hear the diverse backgrounds of the region's people.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312103 (945 words)

	Brazilian Music - Samba, Bossa Nova, Brazilian-jazz
		NossaMusica.com and Studio Up joined together to produce Brazilian high quality music recordings to be sold as mp3 downloads at www.nossamusica.com.
		All songbooks released by Lumiar are available, as well as textbooks and biographies of Brazilian music artists.
		Guitarrists Duda Anizio e Nelson Caiado perform the music of Sérgio de Pinna.
	www.brazilianmusic.com (432 words)

	African Music Samples - Music BR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The music of Africa - congolose sokous, zouk, makossa, lingala …
		African entertainment is an information portal for music, events, restaurants and news relating to the … Music Samples.
		With the growing popularity of portable digital music players, such as the Apple iPod, copyright owners groups are urging private copying royalties on the items be included in the retail price of the players, as is done with minidisc recorders and similar devices.
	music.br.com /african-music-samples.html (613 words)

	StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - SAMBA Dance Page - Main1
		The Samba was nicknamed 'The South American Waltz' and the Bossa Nova is a variant of the Samba.
		The ballroom Samba was introduced to the States about 1917 and most early Samba's were written as Two-Steps.
		This solo dancer chooses his successor for the exhibition spot while shouting the word "sama." This dance is said to be connected to the Samba.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3samba.htm (499 words)

	CD Baby: WORLD: Samba - music you will love. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Combining the sways and touches of jazz, folk, acoustic and world, their music defies simple categorization.
		Specializing in jazz-influenced Brazilian music, this recording delves especially into the musical styles of northeastern Brazil.
		'Samba Na Onda', the 1964 album from 4 members of the cult group Os Ipanemas which continues the heavily percussive and vocal-led sound with way out harmonies and afro-bossa grooves.
	cdbaby.com /style/154?cdbaby=9629eaeebf6561ba8c230f93969995e5 (557 words)

	PCWorld.com - First Look: MusicMatch Jukebox's Impressive Version 10
		One of the major hassles of any decent-sized digital music collection is keeping it all organized in a way that makes sense to you.
		It includes the ability to create custom views of your library (showing just samba music recorded in the 1980s, for instance), to download a list of your library to a spreadsheet and to automatically detect when you've mistakenly downloaded the same song more than once to your portable player.
		If you're a music lover who sometimes has a hard time finding tracks in your own collection, or who's particular about the way your collection is arranged, the new version of MusicMatch Jukebox is definitely worth the download.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,118846,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp (620 words)

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